The location of the new town to the north of Cambridge (Image: RLW Estates)

RLW Estates has now launched a new website showcasing its plans and is holding public exhibition events to consult with residents.

Chris Goldsmith, director of RLW Estates, said: "We are excited to be showing for the first time our approach to creating streets and open spaces that will be people-orientated rather than traffic-dominated.

"Our intention is to create Superblocks that are car-free, allowing communities to take ownership of the spaces around their homes for play, meeting, growing food, relaxing and working.

"Cambridgeshire as a county has embraced cycling and integrated open spaces to a greater extent than anywhere else in the UK and we want to help create a community that embraces this ethos."

Some residents took to Facebook and Twitter to complain that they were given only four days' notice of the exhibition events and had not been reached by a leaflet drop.

A spokesman for the Waterbeach Labour Group said: "This poor communication, whether deliberate or just incompetence, has done nothing to ease the feeling amongst local people that they are being sidelined in the whole process."

But a spokesman for RLW Estates said insisted that no-one had said they were unable to make the exhibition with the notice given.

He added: "There have been two distributions of literature in the village promoting the event, the flyer is available in local shops and the parish council has been advertising the exhibition since late October.

"The exhibition is being held over two days and will be the first of many events that will enable the Waterbeach community to engage with the project team and help shape the future development."

The public exhibitions will be held on Friday, November 24, 2.30-7.30pm and Saturday, November 25, 10am-3pm at the The Salvation Army building, 7 Station Road, Waterbeach, CB25 9HT.